Echo tee guidance at MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL
7218 Crawford Rd, Argyle, TX · Medicalcityhealthcare · · NPI 1306897277
$2,344.72
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,344.72
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$164.13 with Superior Health Plan vs $1,758.54 with HealthSmart Preferred Care — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Health Plan | MCDSTAR | $164.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $164.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $164.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $164.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARHealth | $164.13 | ↓ -93% |
| TEXAS HEALTH NETWORK | MCD | $216.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | CHIP | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Parkland Community Health Plan | MCD | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | STAR | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Cook Childrens Health Plan | CHIP | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| United | CHIP | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STAR | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARKids | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARPLUS | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| United | STARPerinate | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $219.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna Healthspring | MGMCD | $230.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | CHIP | $237.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $237.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | MCDSTAR | $241.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | CHIP | $241.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | STAR+PLUS | $241.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | STARKIDS | $241.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | MGMCD | $274.83 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | QHPHIX | $316.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | IFP | $316.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | QHP | $328.26 | ↓ -86% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $412.67 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $466.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Oscar | HIX | $487.70 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Meritain | $499.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | COMM | $499.43 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | BluePremier | $558.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Highways | NarrowNetwork | $574.46 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | OON | $588.52 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | LocalPlus | $619.01 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $619.01 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | BlueAdvantageHMO | $651.14 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $651.14 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $691.69 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | NetworkBenefit | $691.69 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | HMO | $691.69 | ↓ -71% |
| Healthcare Highways | CityofPlano | $792.52 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | AllOther | $874.58 | ↓ -63% |
| Curative Administrators | COMM | $937.89 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $1,041.06 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentials | $1,153.12 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS | BlueEssentialsAccess | $1,153.12 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $1,209.95 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | ASA | $1,235.67 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | PPO | $1,266.77 | ↓ -46% |
| Humana | COMM | $1,630.83 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan PHCS | PrimaryNetwork | $1,641.30 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna Coventry First Health | COMM | $1,711.65 | ↓ -27% |
| HealthSmart Preferred Care | PPO | $1,758.54 | ↓ -25% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,967.40 | $235.25 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,967.40 | $219.86 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,773.93 | $219.86 – $5,660.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |